Animating Questions
- What does it look like to decolonize a food system?
- How might we shift more power to communities in order to create sustainable and equitable food systems?
- How can we evaluate current efforts in community-led economic development through food?
- How can we inform philanthropic investment in community to enable shared power in decision making and to build sustainable community wealth?
- How can we bring research expertise to bear in partnership with community-based organizations?
Projects
Peer Reviewed Research Papers
Net worth poverty and food insecurity
Lisa A. Kiester, Christina M. Gibson-Davis, Lisa Gennetian, Noah Gibson. Net worth poverty and food insecurity. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2025:1-25. DOI: 10.1111/ajae.12537
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Have agricultural and applied economists lost sight of the land-grant mission? A textual analysis of Presidential Addresses and Invited Papers from 1919–2022
Norbert L.W. Wilson, Natalie Hochhaus. Have agricultural and applied economists lost sight of the land-grant mission? A textual analysis of the Presidential Addresses and Invited Papers from 1919-2022. Appl Econ Perspect Policy. 2024; 1-20. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aepp.13456
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The distribution of competitive research grants from the National Institute for Food and Agriculture: A comparison of 1862 land grant universities, 1890 land grant universities, and other institutions
Wilson, Norbert; Walters, Lurleen; Wade, Tara; Reynolds, Kenesha. The distribution of competitive research grants from the National Institute for Food and Agriculture: A comparison of 1862 land grant universities, 1890 land grant universities, and other institutions. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, December 15, 2023; 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13413
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Food Pantry Use and Barriers in Massachusetts during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Marriott JP, Fiechtner L, Birk NW, Taitelbaum D, Odoms-Young A, Wilson NL, Clay LA, Zack RM. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Food Pantry Use and Barriers in Massachusetts during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nutrients. 2022; 14(12):2531. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14122531
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Food Choice With Economic Scarcity and Time Abundance: A Qualitative Study
Folta, Sara C., Oyedolapo Anyanwu, Jennifer Pustz, Jennifer Oslund, Laura Paige Penkert, and Norbert Wilson. “Food Choice With Economic Scarcity and Time Abundance: A Qualitative Study.” Health Education & Behavior : The Official Publication of the Society for Public Health Education 49, no. 1 (February 2022): 150–58. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981211045926.
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Putting grocery food taxes on the table: Evidence for food security policy-makers
Yuqing Zheng, Jianqiang (Jason) Zhao, Steven Buck, Shaheer Burney, Harry M. Kaiser, Norbert L. Wilson. Putting grocery food taxes on the table: Evidence for food security policy-makers. Food Policy 101 (2021) 102098
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